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Negro Heroes Of Emancipation

By: Bond, Mildred, Roy Wilkins, Paul Schwartz, Et Al

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: 1976

Seller ID: 21762

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

This book is the unforeseen product of one of the activities conducted by the NAACP as part of its year-long observance of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Biographical sketches were prepared and distributed as part of the Association's regular press service to hundreds of newspapers. The response to them overwhelmingly justified this compilation of those biographies. Four or five small rubbed spots on orange covers; pages were hand-numbered; minor wear and moderate foxing; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 35 pages; 21762
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Long Time Gone A Black Panther's True-Life Story: of His Hijacking and Twenty-Five Years in Cuba

By: Brent, William

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Crown: 1996

Seller ID: 29725

ISBN: 081292486X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

The absorbing story of one man's journey from his dirt-poor childhood in Franklin, Louisiana, to his coming of age on the streets Oakland, California. Along the way, Brent finds himself scrapping with the law, learning to survive in San Quentin, growing steadily more politically aware of the many ways his own individual course is bound up with the destiny of African-Americans generally. Brent's intuitive resentment of unjust and abusiv authority marked him as a troublemaker from an early age. It would leave Its stamp upon his character as a man. Deckled edges. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9&#...
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Blackface: Reflections On African-Americans And The Movies

By: George, Nelson

Price: $13.00

Publisher: NY, Harpercollins: 1994

Seller ID: 25134

ISBN: 0060171200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

An examination of African-American imagery and participation in American movies includes a timeline of important African-American events in film history and discusses the achievements of noted celebrities, including Eddy Murphy, Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry, Spike Lee, et al. Mild wear, remainder mark ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pages; 25134
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Children Of Color Psychological Interventions with Minority Youth

By: Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor, and Larke Nahme Huang and Associates

Price: $28.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Jossey-Bass: 1989

Seller ID: 25444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 423 pages; 25444
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Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues

By: Golden, Marita

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Doubleday: 1993

Seller ID: 30669

ISBN: 0385424000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

In this provocative collection of nonfiction pieces, Marita Golden, the critically acclaimed novelist, and fourteen other African-American women writers talk--each in their own distinctive style--about love, men, and sex. These essays--nine of which were written expressly for this book--range in style and content from Audre Lorde's now classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta-Willis's moving essay about her husband to Audrey B. Chapman's hopeful "Black Men Do Feel About Love." ; Cover Art; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 232 pages; 30669
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Black Economic Development

By: Haddad, William F. , and G. Douglas Pugh, Ed's.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall: 1969

Seller ID: 28777

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Contents: John Z. DeLorean on The Problem; Gerson Green and Geoffrey Faux on the Social Utility of Black Enterprise; John McClaughry on Black Ownership and National Politics; Roy Innis on Separatist Economics: A New Social Contract; plus 8 more papers from Howard J. Samuels, A. Wright Elliott, Peter F. McNeish, David B. Hertz, Lawrence Johnson and Wendell Smith, Dunbar S. McLaurin and Cyril D. Tyson, G. Douglas Pugh, and Martin Skala. Crease to lower edge of front DJ flap. In mylar Book Jacket Cover. ; The American Assembly, Columbia University Series; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 176+ pages; ...
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Uncivil Wars The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery

By: Horowitz, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Encounter Books: 2002

Seller ID: 30989

ISBN: 1893554449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Uncivil Wars shows what happens when the new racial orthodoxy collides with tolerance and free speech and what the implications of this conflict are for American education and culture. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 147 pages; 30989
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Plays Of Black Americans

By: Kamerman, Sylvia E. (Ed. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Plays: 1988

Seller ID: 23777

ISBN: 0823802795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

This collection of plays focusing on the Black experience in America includes "The Hall of Black American Heroes", "John Henry", "I Have a Dream" and 8 others. Usual ex-library marks. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages; 23777
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American Minorities And Economic Opportunity

By: Kaplan, H. Roy

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Itasca, IL, F E Peacock Publishers, Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 22785

ISBN: 0875812198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

"used" tape on spine removed, leaving a scuff on front board. Some soil on boards, writing on foredge. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 387 pages; 22785
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Reviving the Spirit A Generation of African Americans Goes Home to Church

By: Lawrence, Beverly Hall

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grove Press: 1996

Seller ID: 30534

ISBN: 0802115624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New Dust Jacket

Citing a trend among African-American baby-boomers who are becoming increasingly interested in spirituality, a cultural examination considers what the church represents to African Americans and predicts widespread social change. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages; 30534
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Primer for White Folks

By: Moon, Bucklin (editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1945

Seller ID: 30452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Two articles about two books scotch taped to rear endpapers. One is concerning this book: an unusual anthology of the best writing, both fiction and non-fiction, on the Negro in America. It presents a comprehensive picture of the Negro from the time he left Africa to the present day [1945], and offers constructive speculation about the future of America's most acute social dilemma. Here is a library of thought contained in one entertaining volume--a challenging, readable anthology that highlights the personal side of the whole Negro problem. Previous owner's name, long ago crease on half-title...
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Cry, The Beloved Country A Story of Comfort in Desolation

By: Paton, Alan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1948

Seller ID: 25418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Minor edgewear, front gutter cracking, previous owner's name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages; 25418
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Black Fiction

By: Rosenblatt, Roger

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 30657

ISBN: 0674076206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

From DJ flap: In this illuminating book Mr. Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Black DJ is edgeworn, rubbed and has one closed tear, about 1 inch, "repaired" with scotch tape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; 30657
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Sources Of The American Social Tradition, Volume I, To 1865

By: Rothman, David J. , & Sheila M. Rothman (Ed. 's)

Price: $10.80

Publisher: Basic Books: 1975

Seller ID: 22691

ISBN: 0465080847

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

Corner creases, previous owner's name, hi-liting. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22691Vshb
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Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer Essays And Speeches)

By: Stewart, Maria W. (edited and Introduced by Marilyn Richardson)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 25442

ISBN: 0253204461

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very occasional and light yellow hiliting. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 136 pages; 25442
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Unsung Black Americans And Their Notable Achievements

By: Stull, Edith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1971

Seller ID: 30667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued

14 chapters covering historical mini-bios of black Americans. On the cover there is a man in a yellow shirt, red neck scarf and cowboy hat. That man is Bill Pickett, the original bulldogger from Taylor, Texas. With the exception of a date on the ffep, the book is in as new condition. ; Sepia drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 69 pages; 30667
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader

By: Weinberg, Meyer, Editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1970

Seller ID: 30892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages; 30892
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches From The Life Of A Free Black: In A Two-story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There

By: Wilson, Harriet E.

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Vintage: 1983

Seller ID: 22692

ISBN: 0394715586

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 22692
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Category: Negro Culture